Hi, On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 16:11 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > 1. If elected, will you seek a named position > (chairman/treasurer/secretary) on the board? If so, why?
Don't think it makes sense as a newbie, however in case there will be many newbies still better than nobody doing the job, plus I assume that people help each other as usual. :-) > 2. Board meetings are minuted, and these minutes are published > regularly. However, the board also increasingly makes decisions on > board-list with the Apache +1/0/-1 convention. Would you support the > minuting of these votes, including recording any -1 votes? If it's not about confidential stuff everything should be public by default, so yes. > 3. I think financial transparency is important. If you plan on applying > for the treasurer position I was rather bad in accounting at school so I won't yell "Yes, please!" > what changes (if any) would you propose for > the budgeting process? How often would you publish financial reports for > the foundation? Are you happy with the level of transparency in the > board's finances now? Speaking from the outside: Quarterly reports would be great but I have no idea how much work that would be (and if it could be done in such a timely manner). I haven't followed finances closely but normally take a look at them in the yearly report. However if that one is published one year after the end of the year it deals with, it somehow feels... late. http://foundation.gnome.org/finance/ looks like it is missing some years. Not good. > 4. Our relationship with a number of groups has suffered this year - and > one of the lesser known ones (but one I'm involvedd in) is the Libre > Graphics Meeting organisers (a group of people representing a couple of > dozen "free art" projects). Are you aware that the LGM organisers > withdrew all the funds that the GNOME Foundation was managing for them > this year, because they have been unhappy with the responsiveness and > quality of communication with the foundation over the past 2 - 3 years? I think I saw a posting about it (probably in some board meeting minutes) but I don't know the backgrounds. > Do you have any thoughts on why this particular relationship degraded? Vague guess as per #3: Either slowness or intransparency? > And will you commit to handling or delegating answers to all > time-critical queries which come to the board during your term? Assuming that time-critical tasks can be identified as such: Yes. > 5. In general, as a board member communication is vital to keep people > outside the board informed whenever there is a delay or when extra input > is needed on something they're working on. For incumbents, are you happy > with the level of communication & reactivity in the current board? For > new candidates, what would you like to do to ensure that the > communication & reactivity of the board improves in the coming term? I didn't have anything to contact the board for in the past so I can't judge. With regard to minutes: They are published via mail and wiki in a timely manner and they are verbose so I am happy with them. I like the GNOME Foundation IRC meetings but we should think about how to better announce them (e.g. global calendar file for GNOME's team meetings etc). > 6. Board members are ambassadors for the foundation. I think it's > important that board members be social, and be nice. Are you nice? Most of the time I am (though I can be quite direct). You can also check mailing list archives to get your own impression. :) andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper | http://www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list